Ernesto Chao

Ernesto Chao

Born: January 1, 1943
Died: August 6, 2018
in Ribadavia, Ourense, Galicia, Spain

Movies for Ernesto Chao...

María (and Everybody Else)
Title: María (and Everybody Else)
Character: Arturo
Released: October 7, 2016
Type: Movie
Ever since her mum died when she was fifteen, Maria has taken care of her father and her siblings. Responsible and in control, she's always been a rock for the family and feels proud of her efforts. That's why her father's sudden love for his nurse and the announcement of their marriage brings Maria's world crashing down around her. At the age of 35 and unable to find a steady partner, she'll have to take the plunge and dare to change her own fate.
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Breadcrumbs
Title: Breadcrumbs
Released: August 14, 2016
Type: Movie
When Liliana decides to return to Uruguay she will have to face up to a new dilemma, perhaps the last great dilemma of her life: To choose between supporting a collective case for female prisoners, raped during the time of the dictatorship, or to reconcile with her son and be able to live peacefully as a mother and a grandmother.
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Death of a Fisherman
Title: Death of a Fisherman
Character: Somoza
Released: October 9, 2015
Type: Movie
One morning, the body of a sailor is found lying on the beach, washed in by the tide.. With no witnesses or any sign of the dead man’s boat, Inspector Leo Caldas begins immersing himself in the town’s seafaring atmosphere as he endeavours to shed light on the crime. He finds himself among men and women who prefer not to reveal their suspicions to him. But a sudden discovery sets him off in an unexpected direction.
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Title: Almirante Hotel
Character: Germán Aldao
Released: April 5, 2015
Type: TV
When a dead woman is found in a hotel room, the destiny of a town changes forever. In a puzzling case involving the hotel’s director, her lover, and the town’s most prominent family, dark secrets and forbidden affairs will shock the core of a conservative society. Set in post-WWII Spain, a time when Spanish people had little freedom under the ever-watching eye of the Civil Guard and the Franco dictatorship. In such circumstances, the protagonists of the story find solace in their family, love, and their hope of a better future.
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O ouro do tempo
Title: O ouro do tempo
Released: August 1, 2012
Type: Movie
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Lost in Galicia
Title: Lost in Galicia
Character: Cifuentes
Released: March 13, 2009
Type: Movie
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Title: Aquí no hay quien viva
Character: Ramiro Villanueva
Released: September 7, 2003
Type: TV
A caustic satire of many of the 'types' found in Spanish society.
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13 Curses
Title: 13 Curses
Character: Inspector
Released: October 12, 2002
Type: Movie
Jacobo is a young sculptor that returns to native city, Santiago of Compostela, to see his mother, locked up a psychiatric hospital for to kill to her husband, when he believed she dead years ago. To their arrival, visions of Mateo, his dead father eighteen years ago, begin to persecute to him, since his father died by shot gun, peculiarly, when thirteen peals sounded in the cathedral, fact what obsesses to Jacobo. After watching several times, Mateo convinces his son to make the work for the cathedral that his father couldn't finish in life, but what begins as a simple work becomes a madness spiral when Jacobo discovers the true intentions of the ghost of his father: to kill to his son to usurp his body to finish the statue, and after to return to the life.
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Días de voda
Title: Días de voda
Character: Alejandro
Released: September 6, 2002
Type: Movie
Sonia, the daughter of a prominent publisher, is about to fulfill her lifelong dream of marrying Rosendo, a promising writer with homosexual tendencies, who pines for his fiancee far less than he does for the brand new literary award launched by his future father-in-law. The wedding shindig will bring its share of unexpected surprises. This is a film is part of the DOGME 95 Movement, described as follows: 'the goal of the Dogme collective is to purify film-making by refusing expensive and spectacular special effects, post-production modifications and other gimmicks. The emphasis on purity forces the filmmakers to focus on the actual story and on the actors' performances. Given these restrictions the story and the action of DIAS DE BODA ('WEDDING DAYS') seem much more immediate and the lapses in fluidity of the story can be forgiven - to a point.
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Title: Cuéntame cómo pasó
Character: Coronel Ibáñez Sañudo
Released: September 13, 2001
Type: TV
Recounts the experiences of a middle-class family, the Alcántaras, during the last years of the rule of Francisco Franco and the beginning of the Spanish Transition to democracy.
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La novia de medianoche
Title: La novia de medianoche
Character: Civil Guard
Released: October 30, 1997
Type: Movie
A wealthy woman twice widowed, lives with his family and two servants in a shady country house in Galicia in the late nineteenth century isolated from the world to hide a serious incident occurred in the family ten years earlier. This event is subject to certain blackmail the family of which will be released by the arrival at the mansion of two strangers who triggered the investigation of the facts and a change in the future family life.
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A noiva de medianoite
Title: A noiva de medianoite
Released: September 1, 1997
Type: Movie
Based on an original argument by Luis Buñuel, this is a love story mixed with tragedy in a Galician noble family.
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Title: Pratos Combinados
Character: Miro Pereira
Released: December 1, 1995
Type: TV
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The Frontier Law
Title: The Frontier Law
Character: Neighbor
Released: August 23, 1995
Type: Movie
Barbara, a journalist in the beginning of the 20th century, searches in the border between Portugal and Galicia a bandit called El Argentino. In her travel she meets two men that say that they belong to his gang.
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A metade da vida
Title: A metade da vida
Released: July 1, 1994
Type: Movie
History of a love triangle between a musician named H. Eire, a friend of him and the latter's companion. In the life of Eire there appears in addition an uncle and his niece, the first anchored in his interest in literature and the second, to become a very interesting young woman.
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Huidos
Title: Huidos
Character: Coronel
Released: April 19, 1993
Type: Movie
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El juego de los mensajes invisibles
Title: El juego de los mensajes invisibles
Character: Cliente
Released: May 1, 1992
Type: Movie
Based on the novel "Adopted son" of Álvaro Pombo. Pancho, a seventy years old man lives isolated in a Galician country house, not far from the sea, which is served by an old maid. Suddenly, the past bursts in his life with the unexpected visit of a man who twenty years before had been his secretary. Soon after, a boy, the son of the man, moves to the house. The return of the past will have unforeseeable consequences.
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Divine Words
Title: Divine Words
Released: September 15, 1987
Type: Movie
A work of Valle-Inclán, the story takes place in Galicia in the early twentieth century. To escape poverty, the wife of a sacristan uses a hydrocephalic child as a sideshow attraction. This causes a confrontation with her sister-in-law.
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The Witching Hour
Title: The Witching Hour
Released: November 4, 1985
Type: Movie
César and Pilar tour the Spanish countryside with their bus, showing films and doing magic spectacles in small villages. In one of these trips they find Saga, a beautiful young woman who starts to travel with them and changes their lives in unexpected ways.